# 卌

| 卌 | U+534C, &#21324; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-534C |
| ← 卋 [U+534B] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 卍 → [U+534D] |

## Translingual
### Han character

卌 (Kangxi radical 24, 十+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 廿廿 (TT) or 難難廿廿 (XXTT), four-corner 4400$_0$, composition ⿻卄〢(GHJ) or ⿻卅丨(TKV) or ⿻川十(TKV) or ⿻廾〢(TKV))

#### Derived characters

* 𢦫, 𬻜, 𬻝, 𭴿, 無, 𭴾, 舞, 橆, 𩡧, 𩆕, 𤽧, 𫉰, 𱸩

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 156, character 14
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2712
* Dae Jaweon: page 355, character 4
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 60, character 2
* Unihan data for U+534C

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 卌 :
| Shang | Western Zhou | Warring States |
| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Chu slip and silk script |
十 (shí, “10”), repeated four times.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): xì (xi$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): se$^3$
* Eastern Min (BUC): siék
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): si$^4$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): siap / siak
    (Teochew, Peng'im): siab$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xì
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄧˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: sì
*** Wade–Giles: hsi$^4$
*** Yale: syì
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shih
*** Palladius: си (si)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕi⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: se$^3$
*** Yale: se
*** Cantonese Pinyin: se$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: sé$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /sɛː³³/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: siék
*** Sinological IPA : /siɛʔ²⁴/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian, Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: si$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬi⁴²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siap
*** Tâi-lô: siap
*** Phofsit Daibuun: siab
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /siap̚⁵/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /siap̚³²/
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siak
*** Tâi-lô: siak
*** Phofsit Daibuun: siag
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /siak̚⁵/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: siab$^4$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: siap
*** Sinological IPA : /siap̚²/
* Middle Chinese: sip
Rime :
| Character | 卌 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 心 (16) |
| Final (韻) | 緝 (141) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 先立切 |
| Baxter | sip |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /siɪp̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /sip̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /sjep̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /sip̚/ |
| Li Rong | /siəp̚/ |
| Wang Li | /sĭĕp̚/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /si̯əp̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | xi |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | sap$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*sub/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 卌 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 13425 |
| Phonetic component | 卌 |
| Rime group | 緝 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 𩎕 |
| Old Chinese | /*sub/ |

### Definitions

卌
* forty

#### Synonyms

* 四十 (sìshí)

#### Compounds

* 上卌𣍐攝 / 上卌𫧃摄
* 卌九日
* 卌九日烏 / 卌九日乌
* 卌工

#### References

* “Entry #1388”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “卌”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 254.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* (archaic) forty

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): しゅう (shū)
* Kun: よんじゅう (yonjū)

## Korean
### Hanja

卌 (eumhun 마흔 십 (maheun sip))
卌 (eumhun 사십 십 (sasip sip))
* forty; fortieth

## Vietnamese
### Han character

卌: Hán Nôm readings: tấp
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